Definitions for: Beetle


[n] insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
[n] a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
[adj] jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
[v] beat with a beetle
[v] fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
[v] be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"



Webster (1913) Definition: Bee"tle (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[=i]tl, b?tl,
mallet, hammer, fr. be['a]tan to beat. See Beat, v. t.]
1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering
process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; --
called also beetling machine. --Knight.


Bee"tle (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beetled
(-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Beetling.]
1. To beat with a heavy mallet.

2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.


Bee"tle, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr.
b[imac]tan to bite. See Bite, v. t.]
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the
outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when
they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

Beetle mite (Zo["o]l.), one of many species of mites, of
the family Oribatid[ae], parasitic on beetles.

Black beetle, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta
orientalis}).


Bee"tle, v. i. [See Beetlebrowed.]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
to jut.

To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er
his base into the sea. --Shak.

Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
--Wordsworth.

Synonyms: beetling, mallet, overhang, protrusive

See Also: bark beetle, beat, blister beetle, carabid beetle, carpenter's mallet, carpet beetle, carpet bug, chrysomelid, clerid, clerid beetle, Coleoptera, deathwatch, deathwatch beetle, elater, elaterid, elaterid beetle, firefly, gavel, go, ground beetle, hammer, hang, insect, lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, ladybug, lamellicorn beetle, leaf beetle, lightning bug, locomote, long-horned beetle, longicorn, longicorn beetle, meloid, move, order Coleoptera, rove beetle, tiger beetle, travel, water beetle, weevil, whirligig beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum

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